• Craft

    Soft Boiled Mysteries for Women Over 50

    "The soft-boiled genre is embedded firmly between the cozy and the hard-boiled, like middle-aged and elder women ensconced between siren and senior."

    November 8, 2021  By Gabrielle St. George
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    The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction

    What makes crime stories so therapeutic? Writer and family counselor Lynne Reeves has some theories.

    November 8, 2021  By Lynne Reeves
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    What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

    A Christie Curriculum

    November 4, 2021  By Lori Rader-Day
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    The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols

    "Have you ever stopped to think about how the items in books help to define our favorite characters?"

    November 4, 2021  By Heather Redmond
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    When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

    "You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

    November 4, 2021  By Anne Emery
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    A Celebration of Sleuth-Mothers

    "Society often overlooks and even erases women caring for children...allow[ing] the sleuth-mother to observe and investigate in the shadows."

    November 3, 2021  By Raquel V. Reyes
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    Anything You Don’t See: Some Ghosts of Southern Brooklyn

    William Boyle on Brooklyn in the final days before 9-11

    November 2, 2021  By William Boyle
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    How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

    "We’re wired for small-scale, agonistic conflict, where we feel, at a gut level, that we have agency."

    November 1, 2021  By Joy Castro
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    On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' Turn of the Screw

    "It is the very function of ghosts to undermine confidence—for good or ill—that the dead are truly set apart."

    October 29, 2021  By Susan L. Mizruchi
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    What Makes a Psychological Thriller?

    Nicci French on the fine line that divides everyday life and the raw material of psychological thrillers.

    October 29, 2021  By Nicci French
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